Ivory Studio offers fully-automated service orchestration. Through this intuitive tool, developers assemble mainframe applications and data into web services with no coding and minimal training. Using drag-and-drop, developers define web service inputs and outputs, and then graphically model the multi-step process to implement the service.

 

 

Delivering multiple benefits
This code-free orchestration not only enhances developer productivity, but also translates into faster time to deployment, reduced maintenance costs, improved governance and system portability.

 

With Ivory Studio, developers deliver composite business services at the optimal level of granularity to facilitate reuse, insulate from costly downstream maintenance and avoid the risks of associated with hard-coded rigidity. Ivory Studio has the ability to create either single or multi-function composite services, and also supports mainframe screen applications, CICS and IMS transactions, COMMAREA and Channel applications, and data.

 

Becoming modern service developers
In addition, the benefits to the developers themselves are significant as they transform from mainframe programmers into modern service developers.

Once Ivory Studio is installed, the web service developer is ready to start building services, with no learning curve. That’s because Ivory Service Architect has been designed from the ground up to put advanced service development capabilities in the hands of mainframe developers — the subject area experts when it comes to mainframe data and functionality. And the intuitive interface and plug-and-play approach of Ivory Service Architect mean that its entire range of powerful functionality is immediately available and usable.

 

Fully supporting all mainframe assets
The all-inclusive platform support fully leverages all mainframe assets within composite systems, incorporating all types of mainframe data and applications — even batch — while respecting security requirements and performance levels in a distributed environment.

 

With Ivory Studio, organizations become more productive and better able to react quickly to changing business needs.